Toronto Real Estate Summit
Join us for the Toronto Real Estate Summit being hosted right here on Move Smartly this July 20 to 23. Watch on demand starting July 20. Free to register.
Join us for the Toronto Real Estate Summit being hosted right here on Move Smartly this July 20 to 23. Watch on demand starting July 20. Free to register.
Research over 500+ Toronto Area neighbourhoods to see which fit your lifestyle needs - and offer the best return on your financial investment.
Find out how local real markets are doing in over 500 Toronto area neighbourhoods - based on real time house price data.
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A fact sheet published last month by LawPRO — the Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company — provides an interesting insight into...
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A recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court warns homeowners that a distributor’s delivery of fuel oil does not mean that their tanks are safe. It also...
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With parts of the new Condominium Act coming into force next week, there is concern about important consumer protection sections in the act that...
The Ontario government acted with speed in imposing a new non-resident tax on real estate purchases.
But when it comes to protecting consumer deposits on...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Condo Buying
When marijuana becomes legal next summer, landlords, tenants and condominium owners can expect an increase in disputes related to both indoor...
A recent case involving a Toronto co-ownership building illustrates why expensive court proceedings are not always the solution to disputes between owners and...
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The most important thing a real estate lawyer must do for his purchaser clients is to confirm the exact dimensions, and location, of the property...
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Collecting homeowner fees to maintain private roads and other shared...
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Editor's Note: This article was first published last month (May 2017).
The Ontario government last month finally passed legislation to regulate the home...
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The Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA), which represents 70,000 real estate agents and brokers, has become involved in a public...
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Editor's Note: This article was first published last month (May 2017).
Last month’s introduction of the 15-per-cent Non-Resident Speculation Tax has turned...
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When is a detached house not detached? That was the question facing the “Smiths” late last month.
The couple came to see me after they signed an...
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A 2016 decision of the Ontario Divisional Court has...
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Have you wondered about becoming a real estate agent, but worried about taking the plunge?
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When the city of Toronto increased its municipal land transfer tax on March 1, no one could have imagined that the failure to grandfather any transactions...
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The Supreme Court of Canada has written the latest chapter in the ongoing...
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Not all insurance policies exclude coverage for floods entering a house from the outside.
Last month I wrote about a $2-million claim for catastrophic water...
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Patrick Gladu and wife Danielle Boyer-Gladu purchased a property in Sturgeon Falls, Ont., back in 2009.
The house had been advertised on the...
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Imagine turning to your insurance company after catastrophic damages to your house and being told, “You’re not covered.”
That’s what happened to Hassan...
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Anyone interested in becoming a landlord in Ontario could learn some lessons from a recent court case which demonstrates how an unscrupulous tenant was able...
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Should condominium corporations disclose the existence of Kitec plumbing to potential buyers on their status certificates? That was the question...
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Condo owners who rented their suite for short-term stays violated the building’s rules, an Ontario court ruled earlier this month.
The Ottawa condo’s...
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What happens if you discover water flowing below the floor in a newly-purchased house and you have to completely gut the basement to remove toxic...
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The Supreme Court of Canada has written the final chapter in one of the most important title-insurance cases of this generation.
The story began...
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What should a buyer do when the status certificate for their condominium purchase shows that the corporation is involved in...
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A small claims court decision released last year underscores the importance of careful wording of seller promises in agreements of...
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Tarion Warranty Corporation has warned Ontario’s builders and real-estate agents they can be charged and fined if involved in the sale of an...
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying
An interim report on the Tarion warranty corporation should have gone further to protect home buyers’ purchase deposits.
Special adviser J....
Bob Aaron in Toronto Real Estate News
In the face of a serious housing shortage in the GTA, the City of Toronto is actively discouraging homeowners from legally adding one or...
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How many times do Ontario judges have to cry out for changes to the landlord and tenant court procedure to prevent tenants from “gaming the system” before the...
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The Seller Property Information Statement (SPIS) continues to be the single most dangerous document in current use in the real estate market.
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Editor's Note: This post was first published on July 2, 2016.
Will home buyers willingly pay an extra $148 to help lawyers close their purchase transactions?
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The recent insolvency of the Urbancorp builder group, and its impact on hundreds of would-be home buyers who wanted to complete...
Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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The soaring values of GTA-area homes has made it an increasingly expensive proposition to die while owning real estate.
Huge probate taxes, officially known...
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Toronto’s subway story just got exciting-scary.
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A new business to transfer funds in real estate purchases and sales is being proposed in Ontario.
The plan is to take control of all closing funds, move the...
Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying, Condo Buying
There’s good news and bad news for homebuyers who would like to see a formal licensing protocol instituted for the province’s home...
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A decision by the Tax Court of Canada last month has muddied the waters about who is — and is not — entitled to the new-home...
Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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Have you wondered about becoming a real estate agent, but worried about taking the plunge?
We’ve designed the Realosophy Sales Assistant...
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Editor's Note: This article was first published Feb 13 2016.
Thousands of purchasers of new condominiums are being overcharged for property taxes
Editor's Note: This article was first published on Feb 1 2016.
A decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that late payment charges and default fees...
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Condo Buying
Recent lawsuits over material changes in final sale agreements have ended with the courts ordering buyers’ deposits fully refunded.
Three...
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying
Ontario homeowners who have purchased title insurance policies are the big winners in a Court of Appeal decision released last week.
When Paul...
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying, Condo Buying
A review of consumer protections for owners of new homes is set to get underway.
Retired associate chief justice J. Douglas...
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Is a seller required to be truthful in disclosing to a buyer that a house was built on potentially toxic landfill? That was the...
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Under provincial law, the bottom of any navigable lakes or rivers typically belong to the Ontario Crown, and no docks or boathouses with foundations sitting...
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying
The vast majority of real estate agents are honest, competent and caring individuals.
Occasionally, however, one of them falls off the rails.
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying, Condo Buying
A squeaky wooden floor was at the centre of a recent decision by the Ontario Licence Appeal Tribunal that overruled the province’s...
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying
Tracy Lynn Robinson and her husband bought a house in Milton last year.
The purchase agreement contained a warranty that the appliances and...
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Condo Buying
This is the story of a $47,000 dog named Peaches and its troubled stay in a Barrie condominium.
It all began back in July, 2014, when Dianna...
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling, Home Buying
Does the seller of a house have a legal obligation to advise the buyers about a flood that occurred after the parties entered into...
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John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying
Given all the press about Toronto’s booming condo market, it’s no surprise that one of the most common questions I get from...
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A Tax Court of Canada decision last month can help buyers of new homes and condos ensure they qualify for the HST new home rebate.
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying, Condo Buying
Two areas involving builder agreements of purchase and sale that cry out for action by the new homes provincial watchdog are...
Editor's Note: This article was originally published prior to July 1st.
Next week marks a sea change in Ontario real property law when it becomes legal to...
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying
With the high price of housing these days, more buyers are turning to the Bank of Mom and Dad for help in acquiring a new home. Often, this takes...
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“If Shakespeare was alive today and owned a condo in Ontario (let’s say Stratford), he would have ample material for a new play about...
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New condo buyers ask me all the time “Do I really need a home inspection for a condo?” After all, there’s no roof to climb or crawl space...
Bob Aaron in Home Buying, Legal
Back in June 2011, Angela Maria Henao and her aunt signed an agreement to buy a new house on Quetico Cres in Oakville. With the June 2012,...
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Across Canada there are thousands of bronze plaques marking historic designations but, until now, not one of them has commemorated a court case.
That...
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An Ontario Court of Appeal decision last year totally reversed what had been commonly viewed for the last 100 years as the law on interference with a...
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A decision of the Ontario Superior Court last month suggests a novel way of avoiding the need to pay province’s 1.5 per cent estate administration tax on real...
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying
It is a common understanding among real estate lawyers that residential title insurance will provide protection against municipal work orders and...
John Pasalis in Home Buying , Toronto Real Estate
As we approach the busy spring real estate market I thought it would be a good opportunity to share my thoughts on the most...
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Is a real estate agent obligated to disclose to purchaser clients whether the house they are interested in buying is stigmatized...
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Condo Buying
Last month I wrote about a court case involving the purchase of a condo townhouse with a third floor attic conversion that did not comply with...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying, Home Selling
If a property in Ontario has been stigmatized as a result of a murder, suicide, death, haunting — or other unpleasant event — must...
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John in Toronto Real Estate News
As a follow up to my previous post which looked more closely at the market for houses in 2014, this week I’m going to look at Toronto’s condo...
Realosophy is currently looking for a few stars who have what it takes to start a successful career in real estate. About every six months or so, we find...
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Bob Aaron in Legal, Condo Buying
A major decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal last week has raised the bar on the level of due diligence required by condominium corporations...
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John in Toronto Real Estate News
As 2015 slowly approaches I thought it would be worthwhile to take a look back at how Toronto’s real estate market performed in 2014 to see if it...
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The Ontario government is cracking down on estate trustees who do not accurately declare the full value of a deceased person’s assets, including real estate.
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Dave Larock in Monday Interest Rate Update, Mortgages and Finances, Home BuyingEditor's Note: The Move Smartly Blog Team congratulates Dave Larock on a well-deserved award from...
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Deciding whether or not it’s the right time to buy your first home is one of the most important decisions many people will make in...
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The 150 purchasers in the failed Centrium condominium project might not have lost their combined deposits of $14.9 million had the Law Society of...
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The Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO), the body that licenses and governs real estate agents, is cracking down on...
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Realosophy released its semi-annual Home Value Survey for the Globe and Mail today and I thought this...
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A recent decision of a discipline panel of the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) could spell the end of the Seller Property...
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What happens if condominium board members fail to comply with the Condominium Act? That question was the focus of a case which ultimately wound...
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Gone are the days when central bankers act as invisible hands, which...
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Anyone keeping a close eye on Toronto’s real estate market might find the sales statistics published by the Toronto Real Estate Board this year a...
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The Seller Property Information Statement, a disclosure form created by the real estate industry,...
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I just found out that the boathouse and dock in front of my cottage were constructed on a municipal road allowance, and...
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Why does a lawyer have to review the condominium status certificate on a resale purchase? What are the risks if it’s...
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We have experienced an overwhelming smell of cigar smoke coming from the condominium unit above ours. What can we do?
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Ever since Garry Marr published his article in the Financial Post titled “Canada’s next housing bubble: real estate agents” there has been...
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Where can I find the size of the condo unit I’m buying in the builder’s pre-construction contract?
I...
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I’m about to do a major renovation in my home. What kind of paperwork do I need?
Excellent answers to this question were provided...
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After a fiercely competitive start to 2014, Toronto’s real estate market is starting to show signs that things are cooling down slightly.
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I just learned that my house was renovated without a proper permit from the city. Do I have title insurance coverage for the...
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As a real estate lawyer, I am a big supporter of the campaign by the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) to phase out...
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Deutsche Bank gets it wrong - Real Estate Prices are Not Overvalued by 60%
In December Deutsche Bank released a report of the world’s...
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Daylight saving time starts tomorrow morning and, for me, it can’t come soon enough. It will still be daylight well after 7 p.m. and,...
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Last month you wrote about a ruling by the late Justice Sydney Robins which paved the way for signing real estate agreements by fax. Does...
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The east end of the Toronto was the hottest place to buy real estate during the first month of 2014. Seven out of the top ten hottest MLS...
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A seller must pay commission to their real estate agent if a full-price offer...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying
True or false? A land survey is unnecessary if the house purchaser buys title insurance.
Answer: false.
A court decision released last month...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying, Home Buying
Many buyers of new homes and condominiums may be surprised to receive a demand from Canada Revenue Agency...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying, Home Buying
A recent court decision raises the thorny issue of whether it should be legal for builders to restrict...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying, Home Buying
A sea change is coming for the management and operation of the province’s 600,000 condominium units if...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
A Globe and Mail article published this week questioning the accuracy of Canada’s housing data published by the Canadian Real Estate...
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In the real estate field, when the value of a house might be affected by a history of murder, suicide,...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Toronto’s real estate market has seen a significant spike in sales over the past three months. Resale home sales in the GTA were up 13% in...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling, Home Buying
I think it’s time that a land survey be made a compulsory part of every real estate transaction. It baffles me why a clause to that...
John Pasalis and Urmi Desai in Toronto Real Estate News
Realosophy spends a lot of time analyzing neighbourhood data so we appreciate that ranking neighbourhoods can be a tricky...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling, Home Buying
Two recent decisions of the Ontario Superior Court have determined that an open municipal building permit — where the city has not...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling, Home Buying
My nomination for the the most odball real estate scheme of the year is last week’s proposal by Larry Chilton and his real estate...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling, Home Buying
In the wake of widespread flooding in Toronto last week, I’ve had a number of phone calls and emails from people trying to sell...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
There have been no shortage of media headlines about Toronto’s real estate market this year. The majority have focused on the future of...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling, Home Buying
Just when I thought I had heard every possible real estate problem, a client showed up with a question that is so novel that the...
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A couple of weeks ago I was meeting with a client to sign closing documents for his condominium purchase in the Scenic on Eglinton...
Bob Aaron in Legal One of the most common complaints from condominium residents is noise coming from neighbouring units. In the last 40 years, more than 100 condominium noise...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News and Condo Buying
If you’re a condo buyer in Toronto it’s certainly tough to make sense of what’s really happening in the market. In the...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying
In the world of real estate, it’s not very well known that title insurance policies vary significantly from one company to another.
When it...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling, Home Buying
An interesting decision from Toronto’s small claims court last December provides a useful lesson on the obligations of buyers,...
A decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in February may have settled the thorny question of whether or not courts have the authority to correct erroneous...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News and Condo Buying
Ever since the federal government reduced the maximum amortization on insured mortgages in Canada back in July 2012 we...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling, Home Buying
Shortly after Sidney and his wife bought their Toronto home last fall, a number of their new neighbours told them that there had...
In Part 1 of this post, we talked about how Toronto buyers can get a jump on other buyers in competitive spring market. My top tip was to go to see a...
While Toronto's real estate market is expected to start leveling out, buyers looking for homes in Toronto's hottest neighbourhoods aren't feeling any...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling
In the wake of a flood of court cases involving the Seller Property Information Statement (SPIS) and its counterparts across Canada, the Ontario...
Five former board members of a London, Ont., condominium corporation have been personally ordered to pay costs totalling $36,300 as a result of two related...
Last week I received an email from a Star reader who had just bought a $588,000 home in Scarborough and wanted to know if I could refer him to a...
Sometimes, even the experts get it wrong, or maybe not entirely right. In her new book, Money Rules, financial guru Gail Vaz Oxlade says that...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News and Condo Buying
Over the past six years, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has influenced the Canadian residential real estate...
In one of the scariest court decisions of recent years, the Ontario Divisional Court has ruled that innocent landowners can be held responsible to remedy...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling
A Saskatoon real estate agent and his brokerage have escaped liability to the purchasers of a home with a wet basement in a misrepresentation...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying, Condo Buying
Despite the fact that residential title insurance has been commonplace in Ontario for the last 15 years, many of my clients still...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying
I have received a number of emails from readers recently asking me if this is a good time to buy a pre-construction condo...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying
An Ontario real estate agent has escaped responsibility for failing to review the results of a professional home inspection with his purchaser...
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A recent decision of the Superior Court of Justice in London, Ont., carries a powerful message about the consequences that can result when a...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying
Imagine waking up one morning to find out that the house you are living in and have listed for sale belongs to your next-door neighbours, and...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying
A decision of the Ontario Divisional Court this summer underscores the importance of having an experienced real estate lawyer review a builder...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Every time we see a slight slowdown in the real estate market I find our agents get many of the same questions from our clients:
Why...
Ontario property owners may soon be in for a shock when they receive their new property assessment notice, but it doesn’t necessarily mean their taxes are...
John Pasalis in Toronto Schools, Home Buying, Realosophy News
When we launched realosophy.com back in 2007, we pioneered market analysis by neighbourhood in Toronto. At the time,...
A decision of the Ontario Court of Justice last week highlights the importance of buying a new home only from a registered builder, and the risks to the buyer...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying
The Toronto Real Estate Board released their August sales statistics yesterday and while there are a couple of interesting...
Urmi Desai in Realosophy News, Toronto Real Estate News
If you use Realosophy.com, you’ve probably noticed some big changes. (If you don't, and you're interested in Toronto real...
A decision of Justice Ted Matlow in the Ontario Superior Court last month contains valuable lessons for residential landlords and tenants, along with a strong...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling
As a result of its promotion by the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA), the seller’s property information statement (SPIS) continues to be a...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Condo Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
In June, the McGuinty government announced a public consultation process to “modernize” the 1998 Condominium Act to...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Royal Bank of Canada published a report this week titled “Booming Toronto condo market does not imply a bubble” which offered an...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Condo Buying
Condominium corporations have a duty to accommodate residents who have sensitivity to second-hand cigarette smoke, according to a recent decision...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Condo Buying
The Tarion Warranty Corp. has introduced a number of program changes which will benefit consumers by providing better disclosure of extra charges...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board published their monthly sales statistics last week and the slow down we’ve been seeing in the real estate...
A recent decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal serves as a strong reminder that landowners who are involved in property boundary disputes should...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Toronto’s real estate market is finally starting to show some signs that things are cooling down as more houses come on the market and...
Compulsory licensing for small landlords is rapidly spreading throughout Ontario, having come into effect most recently in Waterloo on April 1 and North Bay on...
Toronto real estate law guru Jeffrey Lem has a knack for making court cases both entertaining and educational at the same time.
His latest effort, which...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The media have stepped up the real estate bubble rhetoric lately so I thought I would take some time away from the busy spring market to...
The beginning of the cottage season is a good opportunity for a reminder that recreational real estate transactions are unlike any other property dealings.
...
John Pasalis and Urmi Desai in Toronto Real Estate News, Toronto Condos
Over the past couple of years we’ve heard Mark Carney and Jim Flaherty escalate their concerns about...
It's here: the Globe and Mail Home Value Survey. Make sure you grab today's Globe to see whether home prices are up or down in your Toronto neighbourhood.
Bob Aaron in Legal, Toronto Real Estate News
There are many good reasons to support the Toronto Real Estate Board in its battle with the federal Competition Bureau. After all,...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying, Home Selling
My column on basement apartments earlier this month seems to have touched a nerve among homeowners and real estate agents, many of...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Home Buying
Being a home buyer in Toronto's real estate market is hard work.
Every week, you eagerly wait to see the new listings that...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling, Home Buying
When real estate agents prepare offers for a house with a basement apartment, they typically insert a clause stating that “seller...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Toronto's real estate market quietly hit a big milestone last month. The average price for a home in the Greater Toronto Area passed the...
Whenever a new subdivision is built, the subdivider is required to enter into a development agreement with the municipality. Part of each agreement is a...
It is not unusual for lawyers, as we advance through our careers, to assemble a short list of our heroes in the legal field — outstanding individuals who have...
Worried about buying in the right school district for your family?
Worried about buying in the right school district for your family?
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Rarely does a week go by when there isn’t a new economic forecast about the real estate market. For nearly a decade, the negative...
Frank and Dolores Lipischak are next-door neighbours to Diana DeWolf and Joe Russ on Caille Ave. in the town of Lakeshore in Essex County. Their homes front on...
Urmi Desai in 5 Questions, Home Buying
The blogosphere has been abuzz about “FML Listings” an anonymous blog launched by a frustrated Toronto home buyer. FML’s MO is as simple as...
The Toronto Real Estate Board's press release is below.
Bob Aaron in Condo Buying, Legal
Peel Condominium Corp. 108 is an attractive townhouse development built in 2002 on Central Park Dr. in Brampton.
Back in April 2009, the board of...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The final numbers for 2011 are in and the average price for a Toronto home officially increased by 8% to $465,412 over 2010. Sales were up...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
As we say goodbye to another year, it's always instructive to take note of the year that was. What did we hope for? Worry about? And how...
Editor's Note: In our "Five Questions" series, Move Smartly bloggers get answers to the questions we'd all like to ask about Toronto real estate.
Russett...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling
When you’re selling a house known as a link-semi, is it wrong to advertise it as a detached home?
The link house style was popular in Toronto in...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Teranet and National Bank publish a monthly House Price Index that tracks changes in house values in a number of Canadian cities. They...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Condo Buying
In a landmark consumer protection initiative, the Tarion Warranty Corp. has proposed a requirement that builder purchase agreements set out in one...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
TREB released their monthly sales figures last week and overall the market continues to show signs that we are moving closer to a more...
Bob Aaron in Real Estate Trends, Toronto Neighbourhoods
Toronto residents who are proud to live in areas such as Harbourfront, Davisville Village, Leslieville, Chaplin Estates,...
John Pasalis in Condo Buying, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
If there’s one thing that concerns me about Toronto’s real estate market it's the uncertainty about the boom we...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Since June of this year Toronto's real estate market slowly started to move away from being a strong sellers market to one that is...
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John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
One of the major misconceptions most buyers have about the real estate market is that changes in supply, demand and most importantly price...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Below is a copy of the Toronto Real Estate Board's press release with their sales figures for August 2011. The key facts:
Sales - up 21%
...
We're excited to introduce Realosophy’s revamped Neighbourhood Match tool, our "eHarmony" for Toronto neighbourhoods. Thanks to the hard work of our...
Urmi Desai in Realosophy News, Real Estate Trends, Entrepreneurism
Realosophy was in the Toronto Star over the weekend which was great fun. It was particularly exciting that the...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying, Condo Buying
With thousands of new Toronto condominiums being completed each year, investor purchasers are putting many of them on the market,...
The Germans must have a word for that feeling of being reluctant to read something that you are sure has been created only to excite you into frothy...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying
One of the lesser known benefits of title insurance is that the insurer is obligated to provide and pay for the legal costs of defending the...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Toronto real estate sales continued their hot pace recording a 23% increase in July 2011 over the same month last year. The month's actual...
John Pasalis and Urmi Desai in Real Estate Trends
If you thought Round One was interesting, Round Two will blow you away.
After reaching a settlement with the Canadian Real...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
An increase in the demand for homes and a decline in the number of houses available for sale pushed prices up 10% in June when compared to...
Bob Aaron in Home Buying, Condo Buying, Home Selling, Legal
One of the biggest challenges facing the new home industry today is the problem of illegal construction and sale of...
The town of Port Hope, featured two weeks ago in a Saturday Star story on the impact of low-level nuclear contamination affecting local homeowners, is not the...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Buying
An Ontario court has found a real estate agent partially liable in damages for failing to review a home inspector’s report carefully with his...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The big story for Toronto’s real estate market in May was the big decline in homes available for sale. There were 27% fewer homes...
Bob Aaron in Home Selling, Legal
If there ever was any doubt about the risks to sellers and real estate agents of using the Seller Property Information Statement (SPIS), a...
Does a seller have an obligation to disclose to a purchaser with young children the fact that a person convicted of child pornography lives across the street?...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The average price for a Toronto home rose 9% in April 2011 over the same month last year. This price increase was largely driven by a...
Urmi Desai in Five Questions, Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying
Editor's Note: In our "Five Questions" series, Move Smartly bloggers get answers to the questions we'd all...
Bob Aaron in Home Buying, Legal
The governing bodies of the notary and legal professions in Quebec have launched a lawsuit against several title insurance companies over the...
Urmi Desai in Real Estate Marketing, Realosophy News
Want to kill a few hours? Tell someone you’re thinking about how to price a good or service and ask for their thoughts. (Make...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
In my monthly market update last week I showed that strong demand for homes coupled with a decline in the supply of houses coming on the...
Really enjoyed Koerner Hall's sneak peak event announcing the upcoming 2011-2012 season yesterday.
Koerner Hall, the new performance hall at the Royal...
Bob Aaron in Home Buying, Condo Buying, Legal
In my column on April 2, I wrote about a study by Halifax Home Insurance in the U.K. which reported that more than 360,000 Britons,...
Urmi Desai in Realosophy News, Real Estate Marketing
Papa's got a brand new bag! Head over to realosophy.com to check out our new look!
(Tell us what you think! If you love the...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The number of home sales in the Greater Toronto Area in March 2011 declined by 11% over the same month last year to 9,262 while the...
Bob Aaron in Real Estate Trends, Legal
At any given time, at least some of the courts in Ontario are occupied with disputes between neighbours. Based on the current law reports...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Condo Buying
A Toronto-area builder has filed a notice of appeal after losing two small claims court cases to new condominium buyers who sued to recover...
Urmi Desai in Toronto Neighbourhoods, Leslieville, Riverdale
Lots of change happening on the retail street at Broadview and Queen East. On a small block there are no less than 7...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
In last month's market update I looked at whether Toronto real estate prices were heading up or down by comparing conflicting figures...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Condo Buying
Last month two clients of mine were closing on the purchase of a new Toronto condominium. When they received the final statement of adjustments...
I'm an appreciative member of the Textile Museum of Canada (55 Centre Ave, Dundas West @ University Ave), a small but strong community dedicated to the...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Home Buying, Toronto Neighbourhoods
“Where is the next up and coming neighbourhood?” has to be the question I’m most often asked by home...
“Good fences make good neighbours” is an old English proverb made popular by Robert Frost in his 1914 poem “Mending Wall.” It was quoted again last year in an...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Are Toronto real estate prices on the way up or on the way down? That’s the question we’ll be tackling today by looking at house price...
Urmi Desai in Real Toronto, Leslieville
Editor’s Note: “Experienced” is an occasional column that reveals hidden bits of Toronto – not so much the trendy underground, but rather...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
In 2006 the Canada’s federal government extended the maximum allowable amortization for a mortgage from 25 years to 40 years. This...
The Supreme Court of Canada has written the final chapter in a case which raises important issues about the protection of our privacy rights, which are...
Editor’s Note: “Experienced” is an occasional column that reveals hidden bits of Toronto – not so much the trendy underground, but rather the comfort...
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